3.11 Robotics, artificial intelligence and expert systems

IT Concepts that will be addressed

Keywords in Section 3.11

1 Robotics

Topic	Student in Charge
Input Devices for example camera, sensors, microphone	Aqueel
Output Devices: for example, claws, wheels, motors, relays speakers	Andrea
Robot, android, cyborg	EJ
Sensors for example, heat ,proximity, magnetism, light, humidity, Ph	Trilok

2 Artificial intelligence

Topic	Student In charge
Artificial Intelligence verus computational intelligence	Trilok
Man or machine: Turing test, CAPTCHA (completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart)	Henry
Capabilities and limitations: for example, learning to identify human emotions, evaluation of living things and machines (intuition, prior knowledge, judgement)	Andrea
AI techniques, searching, pattern recognition, heuristics, machine learning	Aqueel
Fuzzy logic, set theory	EJ
Machine learning: can machines become independant	Henry

3 Expert Systems

Topic	Studnet In Charge
Collection, creation amd maintenance of knowledge base	Henry
Creation of inference engine, inference rule (if then rules), chaining, suitable domains for expert systems	EJ
Expert Systems, knowledge base, knowledge engineer, expert system shells, inference engine domain, common-sense knowledge	Trilok
Purpose of an algorithm within expert systems: for example, fault finding, product development

4 Applications of robotics, artificial intelligence and expert systems

Topic	Student In Charge
Embedded systems: for example, cell/mobile phones, GPS washing machines
Internet search engines
Smart Systems: for example, used at home or in warfare, medicine cars	Andrea
Use of artificial intelligence (AI): fir example, language translation, cheese, voice recognition, nodelling, games, predictive text, business inteligence systems
Use of expert systems: for example, medical diagnosis, fault diagnosis. flight simulators, fraud detection
Use of Robots: for example, in industry, health, warfare, airlines, space, underwater exploration.	Andrea